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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag